Hat-fastener.



I. BRAVEMAN & J. SCHMIDT.

HAT FASTBNER.

APPLIOATIOF FILED 0OT.18, 1910.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOIJRAPHCOH WASHINGTON. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISIDOR BRAVEMAN AND JOSEPH SCHMIDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT-FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, Isrnon BRAVEMAN and JOSEPH SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States and a subject of the Emperor of Germany, respectively, both residents of New York, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invent-ion relates to a class of devices or fasteners adapted to be applied more particularly to hats worn by women for retaining the hat upon the head.

Our invention has for its object primarily to provide a fastener or device which may be readily applied to wo-mens hats of various shapes and sizes and which is adapted to grip the hair of the wearer thereof in a manner to efficiently secure the hat against displacement when placed in any desired posit-ion upon the head, and to provide a form of fastener which may be economical to manufacture or made so as to be highly ornamental and very attractive in appearance.

A further object of our invention is to provide two corresponding retaining elements each having one or a plurality of cooperating prongs or gripping members adapted to be inserted into the hair, and to provide means for resiliently retaining the cooperating prongs in firm engagement with the hair.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in .the appended claim.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a bottom plan of our improved hat fastener applied to the crown of a hat, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the pins and one of the retaining elements connected thereto.

In practice the fastener 10 may be made of any suitable size so as to adapt it to be applied interiorly of the crown of any shape or form of hat usually worn by women. Through opposite parts of the crown of the hat, as indicated at 11, are directed two pins 12 and 13 which may be of any desired length to extend exteriorly of said crown and one end of each of said pins is pointed Specification of 'Letters Patent.

Patented Sept-2, 1913.

Application filed October 18, 1910. Serial No. 587,698.

to permit them to be readily passed through the material of the hat. Each of the pins 12 and 13 at the pointed ends thereof is threaded, as at 14 and 15, and upon said threaded portions may be screwed a head or ornament, as 16 and 17, of any preferred design by which the fastener 10 is operated as well as serving as a decorative feature of the hat.

The opposite end'of each of the pins 12 and 13 is rigidly held to the central part of a cross-bar 18 and 19 of two corresponding retaining elements 20 and 21. The cross bars 18 and 19 are spaced apart in substantially parallel relation and are adapted to be moved laterally with respect to each other when the pins 12 and 13 are drawn outwardly or forced inwardly through the crown of the hat. Upon the cross-bars 18 and 19 are provided a plurality of substantially U-shaped gripping members 22, 23, 24, 25, all of which are preferably alike in formation, and said gripping members have arms 26, 27, 28, 29, each having one end thereof formed at an end of one of the cross-bars 18 and 19. The arms 26 and 27 are disposed at right angles to the cross bar 18 and in an opposite direction to the arms 28 and 29 which are directed at right angles to the cross-bar 19. The opposite end of each of the arms 26, 27, 28, 29 is provided with one-0r a plurality of spaced hook-shaped prongs or pins, as 30 and 30*, each of which is formed by curving the material so that one arm of the pin or prong will be turned inwardly toward the corresponding cross-bar and disposed on a different relative plane underneath the respective arms 26, 27 28, 29.

To provide eflicient means adapted to resiliently retain the U-shaped gripping members in engagement with the hair of a person when inserted therein the cross-bars 18 and 19 are connected by one or a plurality of coil springs 81 and 32 normally serving to hold said cross-bars in proximity, and to prevent the hair from becoming entangled therewith said spring may be inclosed in an elastic tube, as 33 and 34.

In operating our fastener, after it is applied to a hat by passing the pointed threaded portions, 14- and 15 through opposite parts of the crown thereof and when positioned upon the head of a person each of the ornamental heads 16 and 17 are gripped by the fingers of the hands of the wearer for 

